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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Comptella (Genus)
> cresswelli (Species)
Images: Comptella cresswelli B. A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
In shell sand, Waipapa Point, Catlins, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Comptella (Genus)
> cresswelli (Species)
Details: Comptella cresswelli B. A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.05mm, Width 2.45mm
Distribution:
Southern South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, from 0-220m
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic, Late Pleistocene (Haweran) and Holocene
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References and Publications

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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